Announced by White House Advisor Ivanka Trump and USAID Administrator Mark Green at an event co-hosted by the USGLC and USAID, the W-GDP Incentive Fund will provide grants to 14 projects in 22 countries. Mostly located in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia, these projects will collectively help more than 100,000 women advance in their local economies.

“We are very excited. This really is just the beginning,” said Ms. Trump, who has spearheaded the W-GDP Initiative. “We are already seeing the impact and effect [and] we have no doubt it is going to enable us to really achieve extraordinary things.”

The fund builds on the W-GDP’s broader goals to empower 50 million women in the developing world by 2025 with a three-fold focus to lift up women in the economy, the workforce, and as entrepreneurs.

While the W-GDP coordinates women’s economic empowerment across all federal agencies— including the State Department, USAID, the Peace Corps, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) and the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)— part of the initiative’s ‘secret sauce’ is the public-private partnerships. By tapping into the power of the private sector, W-GDP plans to maximize the impact and reach of its work.

“The private sector has played a critical role in this regard,” said Administrator Green. “We’re able to unlock the might of the private sector in ways that create economic benefits broadly across the community, but also create opportunities to build upon work that is already being done.”

These 14 new projects will leverage expertise from over 30 private sector companies and NGOs, in addition to $160 million in private sector funding. In fact, six of the 14 projects involve USGLC members—either as project implementers or partners. Through their efforts, they’re leading the charge to change the lives of thousands of women around the world.

Here are the new W-GDP Incentive Fund projects led by USGLC members:

Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru – Citi, Google, and other Laboratoria consortium members are working with private sector partners to provide skills training to 8,700 women who are seeking employment or promotions in the tech sector.

Benin – The Management Sciences for Health and its private sector partners are working with 170+ women victims of gender-based violence to reintegrate them into the workforce through employment and entrepreneurship opportunities

Indonesia – Cargill and its NGOs and private sector partners are helping boost the incomes and revenues of 2,000 women-led enterprises and 5,000 women in the poultry industry.

Côte d’Ivoire – The International Rescue Committee and its private sector partners are providing vocational training for 750 women seeking employment in the solar energy industry.

Philippines – UPS and its NGO and private sector partners are boosting the earnings of 3,800 women entrepreneurs and helping local governments remove the barriers that prevent women’s full economic participation.

Ethiopia, Liberia, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zambia – Landesa and its private sector partners are helping revise laws and regulations that hinder the property rights of millions of women in these countries.

Since 2013, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has worked in Myanmar to support the country’s democratic development. A cornerstone, decade-long, project is USAID’s promoting the Rule of Law in Myanmar project (PRLM), currently implemented by international development firm Chemonics International and formerly implemented by Tetra Tech. To date, the PRLM project has overseen a variety of programs – ranging from creating Myanmar’s first independent lawyer’s association to piloting and expanding an electronic court case management system.

In September 2016, Global Communities began partnering with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on Nuestra Salud (“Our Health”), a three-year program to stem the spread of the virus in Honduras, where there were about 36,000 cases of Zika at the time. With help from the program, volunteers are taking on roles as community leaders to educate younger Hondurans about the dangers of mosquito-borne Zika, which can cause serious birth defects if contracted by pregnant women.